Geography
This is the number of continents on the earth.
What is the number 7?
Name two plants you have grown for science lessons this year.
What are: wheat grass and rice?
These are the 3 most common colors on flags around the world.
What are white, red and blue?
Chinese children have been learning this way of writing since ancient times.
What is calligraphy (or what is Chinese calligraphy)?
This South African citizen was imprisoned for 40 years before serving his country as president from 1994 to 1999.
What was Nelson Mandela?
This is the only country continent in the world.
What is Australia?
Name two experiments where you transferred heat.
What were: making a solar oven and making color-changing slime?
This country's flag features a six-pointed star.
What is Israel?
This is a popular African form of art, often featuring animals native to the continent. You each got to make one during Discovery days.
What is mask-making?
This famous explorer helped colonize countries across Oceania.
Who was Captain James Cook?
These are the 4 layers of the Earth.
What are: the inner core, the outer core, the mantle and the crust?
What is Botswana?
This country boasts the only flag with modern-day weapons. Its flag includes an AK-47.
What is Mozambique?
What is wire basket weaving?
This Indian peacemaker spun cotton in order to clear his mind. His grandson learned a lot from him.
What was Mahatma Gandhi?
Name 4 Asian countries we studied this school year.
(Student only needs to give 4 of the following answers) What are: China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia?
Name 4 animals we have studied this school year.
What are the: Irrawaddy river dolphin, elephant, snow leopard, cheetah, lion, hyenas, zebra, giraffe, desert animals, koala, bilby, sea turtle, echidna, owl, camel, seahorse, cat, blue heron, snowy egret, turtle, dugong, frog? (students only need to name 4 of these animals correctly)
This country's flag is made up of a red circle on a white background.
What is Japan?
This Indian art form is painted onto hands and arms, especially to celebrate important events like weddings.
What is henna art?
This Pakistani citizen is a champion for women's rights, specifically the right of girls to receive an education.
Who is Malala?
Name 5 African countries we studied this year.
(Scholar should answer any 3 of the countries to follow) What are: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, Angola, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia?
Name 3 types of dams.
What are: arch, embankment, gravity and buttress? (students only need to name 3 of the 4 types)
This country decided to feature their national bird on their flag: the bird of paradise.
What is Papua New Guinea?
This Japanese art form involves carving and paint.
What is block printing?
This Afghani girl's grandma sent her to attend a secret school, hidden from the Taliban.
Who was Nasreen?